Ahh, livna.... You know, know that i have convinced my Fedora friends to switch to Ubuntu, what do I tall them when i go back? :o) I'll take a look at it, and also at home-brewing a kernel. Maybe that's the way forward.
Thanks, Andras
2010/9/13 Bernardo Barros bernardobarros2@gmail.com
Then you have to add Fusion free+non-free (maybe livna?) to your repos.
2010/9/13 András Murányi muranyia@gmail.com:
Hhh, switching distro seems harder than moving to another country sometimes... :o) I heard that some non-free stuff if missing from Fedora, does CCRMA have these? Like some proprietary codecs, etc...
2010/9/13 Bernardo Barros bernardobarros2@gmail.com
yes, planet_ccrma is a repo for the Fedora/CentOS/RedHat family I like it
2010/9/13 András Murányi muranyia@gmail.com:
Hmm, hmm. That means switching to Fedora, right?
2010/9/13 Bernardo Barros bernardobarros2@gmail.com
Planet CCRMA offers rt-kernel for x86_64 systems. Give it a try.
2010/9/13 András Murányi muranyia@gmail.com:
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 7:59 PM, jm jones juanmjv@gmail.com
wrote:
> > Hi, usually I install the 64 bits version of, but the last time, I > dont remember why : ) (maybe to avoid any problems) I installed
the
> 32 > bits version of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Is a repo of pd-extended for
10.04
> available? > And about the 32 vs 64 bits, what are your choices? And what
about
> distros? Pure:dyne seems more lightweight with his xfce desktop, > however I have a good processor (core 2 duo intel e7200) and 2gb
of
> ram, planning an update to 6gb, so I dont know if xfce is a must
for
> me. > Im a "veteran" gnu/linux user, but the last years I was using OS X > and > W7 for music making. In Linux I want to use pd, Renoise (its > available > as 64 bits too), and wine for some vsts. >
Hi There,
I'm sort of a veteran too (started on IBM AIX in 1992, used Red Hat for a long time, then went back to Windows 98, later XP, which i gave up finally a few years ago). I'm using vanilla Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit with Gnome (and 2GB of
memory),
and my impression is that it's not the WM that makes things slow, but in
the
case of Pd, it's Pd itself. Read the archives on GUI<->core
communication
and Tcl/Tk weirdnesses. The 64-bit version of Pd is quite tidy now,
well
actually there was a time when it seemed to me a bit slower than
the
32-bit version, but AFAIK there's no reason for that any more (?) With a decent CPU and that huge amount of RAM you (will) have, it really cannot be a question of WM whatsoever. Of course, the system has to be tuned for realtime, undisturbed audio usage, which may include getting
rid
of eye-candy functions, but i never experienced a problem with those. After all, they use openGL, don't they? The same stands for pure:dyne; at the core it's a linux kernel, and what you install on (or remove from) the top, it's up to you. The only thing i'm missing here on 64-bit is the RT kernel. Once i find a nice quick way, i'll grab it, but i'm not really into home-brewing
my
kernel. :)
-- Muranyi Andras